Luka Bloom releases new album, plots tour

Singer-songwriter Luka Bloom will release his 12th album Eleven Songs next month, with a full Irish tour planned to promote the record.

Luka Bloom's Eleven Songs is out on October 10 on his own Big Sky Records label.

The album is the singer's 12th release, following an 18-year career of worldwide tours with the likes of The Pogues, The Hothouse Flowers, and of course older brother Christy Moore.

Co-produced by Luka and Dave Odlum (The Frames, Gemma Hayes), the record features a little help from friends and musicians Dave Hingerty, Trevor Hutchinson, Liam O'Maonlai, Paul Smith, Cora Venus Lunny, Ken Edge, Sinead Martin, Robbie Moore and the Gardiner St. Gospel Choir.

The album will be preceded by the single, ‘I’m On Your Side’, and followed by a promotional tour stopping off at: Birr Theatre, Offaly (October 10); The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, Leitrim (11); The Waterfront, Belfast (15); The Forum, Waterford (17); The Savoy, Cork (18); Vicar St., Dublin (November 1).

Tickets are on sale now, with the exception of the Dublin date, which goes on sale tomorrow (Wednesday September 10), priced €28.

Luka Bloom to release new album

Bloom! Shake The Room

Kildare’s favourite son and godfather of the singer-songwriter scene, Luka Bloom, talks to Jackie Hayden about his most intimate album to date, Innocence, gigging with The Frames in Australia and hanging backstage with Gabriel Byrne.

Luka Bloom announces national tour

Innocence

The younger generation of Irish singer-songwriters have tended to obscure Luka Bloom's place in the firmament. But with this more reflective and introspective album (his 10th), he restores himself to his rightful place in the pantheon of intelligent and passionate songsmiths with his uncanny ability to see the power and meaning in the atoms of daily life.

In Bloom

30 years a Bloom-in'

With an Irish tour approaching and a new album in the shops, Luka Bloom looks back on three decades that have taken him from busking in a pub in Newbridge to the big stages of Europe and America. In this candid interview with Jackie Hayden the man also known as Barry Moore talks about brother Christy, overcoming stage fright, finding an original voice, dealings with the music business, the need to combat racism - and why he remains a wannabe bogman

Luka Bloom

Armed with just his guitar and emotive voice, Bloom magically transformed a large theatre into an intimate bedsit, for this was not just a gig but a celebration of life, love, sex and the Irish weather

Between the Mountain and the Moon

Keeper Of The Flame

It would seem that inside every successful singer songwriter there’s a covers album struggling to get out. Following George Michael, Annie Lennox et al, the fad now appears to be passing into Irish trad circles, with De Dannan’s ill-advised Hotel Hollywood effort and now Luka Bloom’s first release for two years.